I do believe that is absolutely the meanest looking Bluegill I have ever laid eyes on. What an awsome speciman.
Exclent photograph!!! To each his or her own, but I want to see the bluegill , and I can see it clearly.
Now if I can just get the drool…
Got to love those Gapen floats. Started using them this year; amazing how they improve the numbers of fish caught. I have a large selection of sizes and models now in my gill box.
"you have found a population of alien bluegills! The monsters you are catching eat the biggest bluegills I've ever caught!
All hail Ross...
Doug " i second that
You hae some awesome pics and some aliens gills around you.If I didn't love Wi so much I would ask where u live so I could move there.But we have so many different opps here it would make it hard as I have family in San Diego.Which is just another i…
Ross-
you sir is an inspiration to me! how lucky can you get catching monster sunnies!!! lucky! i tell ya! keep sending more pictures of keepers! and also try to send a video of you hooking up a big one!!
joseph
Hey Ross...you are exactly right about those females gettin and and out quickly on bedding areas. I'll bet 95% of the bigger gills I catch during the spawn are males. Most of he big fish we see are almost always males, and we catch some of the larger females in the deeper outskirts next to bedding areas.
You caught 3 bluegills.... 1lb 8 oz, 1 lb 11 oz and 1 lb 13 oz! That's trophy bluegills! I respect your sercet lake but I like to know what you use? Live bait or lure? Deep water or spawn area? Thanks for your time!
Tight line!
Thank you very much for that info, BC! My usual spot out there (and they only one I know, really) is Bethany Reservoir, up near the wind farms, a mile or 2 west of Clifton Court Forebay. It has loads of bluegill and I caught a 9" redear last time I…
Hey , I'm a flyroder and use crickets all the time , about the only time I use artificial flys is when I run out of crickets or I'm fishing for smallmouths. The only limitation is it's harder to fish deeper than your flyrod is long but it is possibl…
Will somebody get me some distilled water! I just licked my screen! Thats one awsume lookin fly! Like boggie man said it must be a labor of love because just like his other suggestion. I just use live crickets on a fly rod! HAHA! I wish I coulda see…
Ive got a tackle box full! I love the bitsy minnow. There awsume. I was fishing with my dad and he was casting a bitsy minow while I was draggin crickets. I was embarresed when he was over 20 gills ahead. I had to swallow my pride and ask to borrow…
Although I usually fish for bass, the most fun I've ever had fishing was when I found myself casting Strike King Bitsy Minnows and Rapala CD1's into a school of bull blue gills suspending under a creek bridge. The action was nonstop.
Since then, I'…
AWESOME question! Pop-up is the main bite early and I call that a "lift".
If you have proper gear- your float will (( lift )) slightly up in the water.
The reason I talk about sensitivity in a setup is that fish eject their food all day long. Somet…
Is that cricket PINK?????? Greg, the lengths you have gone to fashion a cricket for a flyrod. I must apologize. I should have told you you could use REAL crickets on a flyrod. # 10 hook, single "B" sinker, small float, rollcast. I've read Shooter's…